Augusta News

AUGUSTA, Maine - A Maine woman says she should be able to keep her exotic pet fish in her home's indoor pond even though the state prohibits them.

Chinese students Michael Gao and Mindy Yi discuss their practice exam during their AP statistics class at Orono High School on Thursday, May 9, 2013.

BREAKING: AUGUSTA, Maine -- Live audio streaming of the Wednesday hearing by Maine's Labor, Commerce, Research and Economic Development committee is available.

After her morning tour at BIW Wednesday, Mrs. LePage will be serving pizza slices to local patrons at The Cabin Restaurant, which is celebrating 40 years in business on June 3. Mrs.

Donald Tong, Hong Kong commissioner for Economic and Trade Affairs for the USA, talks with Brian Doyle, governor's account executive for the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development, at the Androscoggin County Chamber of Commerce on Lisbon Street in Lewiston on Tuesday.

People whose lakeside camps were allegedly burglarized by a man who lived alone in the woods for 27 years have claimed a cooler, a rain jacket, a thermometer, a knife and other items that were pilfered over the years.

Greens are convening Sunday at the Belfast Free Library. The keynote speaker in Dr.

A former Minnesota lawmaker who sponsored the nation's first successful charter school law is visiting Maine, which became the 41st state to enact charter school legislation in 2011.

Daniel Keough, right, and Charles Derosby inspect a gun at JT Reid's annual gun show in Lewiston on Feb.

Maine's education commissioner is visiting schools in western Maine as part of his cross-state tour to observe innovative school practices.

The Kennebec Journal reports the sheriffs said marijuana is a gateway drug that leads to abuse of other substances.

Source: Bangor Daily News AUGUSTA, Maine - Maine could become the 13th state to support an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to overturn the controversial Citizens United ruling.

The Government Oversight Committee voted Friday to pose questions to two other bodies that are already probing Maine's unemployment compensation system.

Desperate appeals from some lawmakers have failed to persuade the Maine House to preserve as open records names and other personal information on concealed weapons permits.

AUGUSTA, Maine - After living 27 years in the woods as the legendary North Pond Hermit, Christopher Knight isn't too keen on speaking with many people as he sits in Kennebec County Jail, awaiting his next court hearing.

A new report says that private funds surpassed Maine Clean Election Act Funds in last year's legislative races for the first time since 2002.

This April 2013 file booking photo provided by the Kennebec County Sheriff's Office in Augusta, Maine, shows Christopher Knight, arrested Thursday, April 4, 2013, while stealing food from a camp in Rome, Maine.

Marty Odlin of South Portland is the shore engineer for his family's three groundfishing boats.